Hitchcock

Hitchcock

Voyeurism & male gaze (Laura Mulvey 1975)
Inversion of gender roles
links out
1. 'fill the frame'
2. 'make em wait'
3. 'no dry seats'
4. freud
5. jung
Intimacy
1. mid shot
  1. Psycho
    1. frames the couple
2. subjective shots (alternating)
3. symbolism
  1. Psycho
    1. underwear
      1. white to black
    2. candles
    3. stuffed birds
  2. Rear window
    1. lingerie in suitcase
    2. camera
    3. cast
      1. impotence
  3. The birds
    1. love birds
      1. confined/constrained
Violence
1. violence as a substitute for the sexual act (frenzied)
  1. montage/fast edited action shots
  2. alternate p.o.v. shots
  3. extreme c.u.
    1. emotion
  4. mid shots
    1. reveal vulnerability
  5. canted high and low camera angles
    1. convey power imbalance
      1. uncertainty, distress, fear
background in silent films meant that he could tell a story without much dialogue. had audience figure it out. gave clues, shot of newspaper

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